Celebrity memorabilia to hit auction block

London – Marilyn Monroe’s lace-trimmed pantaloons and the hat John Lennon wore at the Beatles’ last photo shoot are among more than 150 items of entertainment memorabilia that will go up for sale later this month.

Lennon’s black cowboy hat is expected to fetch between $15,200 to $19,000, Bonhams auction house said Tuesday. Lennon wore it during an August 1969 photo shoot that followed the Beatles’ final recording session.

The cream pantaloons that Monroe wore in the 1954 Western movie “River of No Return” are estimated to sell for between $3,800 to $5,700 at the Nov. 22 sale.

A handful of rare publicity posters for 2002’s “Spider-Man” film will also be on the auction block. The posters, printed before Sept. 11, 2001, and recalled after the terror attacks, show the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center reflected in Spider-Man’s eyes.

The auction will also include movie posters from early 20th-century hits such as “All Quiet on the Western Front” and concept sketches for the 1960s TV show “Thunderbirds.”

Colbert portrait fetches more than $50,000

New York – Stephen Colbert is about to be hung. A portrait of the TV satirist, that is.

Chad Walldorf’s chain of barbecue restaurants paid $50,605 for the portrait, which “The Colbert Report” sold on e-Bay, with the money going to charity.

The painting hung above the fireplace on the set of the Comedy Central show and depicts a debonair Colbert standing in front of a similar portrait of himself. Colbert announced the winner on Tuesday’s show.

Walldorf and his business partners, who oversee 17 Sticky Fingers restaurants throughout the South, intend to mount the portrait in their restaurant in Charleston, S.C., which is Colbert’s hometown.

“We don’t know much about art, but figured any time you can get two portraits for the price of one, then it must be a great deal … It’s like a buy-one-get-one-free on the American Dream,” Walldorf, 38, said, sounding appropriately Colbert-inflated.

Proceeds from the painting will benefit Westport, Conn.-based Save the Children.

Trump’s flag too ‘yooge’

Palm Beach, Fla. – Donald Trump’s display of patriotism is apparently too flamboyant for this chic oceanside town.

Palm Beach officials cited Trump for hoisting a large American flag atop an 80-foot pole at his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate and club.

Town officials said the real estate mogul has violated zoning codes with a flagpole taller than 42 feet and for erecting it without a building permit and permission from the landmarks board. Trump has until Nov. 27 to apply for approvals or face a Dec. 21 code enforcement hearing that could result in $250-a-day fines.

“You don’t need a permit to put up the American flag,” Trump said Tuesday. “The day you need a permit to put up the American flag, that will be a sad day for this country.”